“We need more stories like this, told so thoughtfully, with such grace and acceptance of the messiness of life, and the profound joys that can come even when everything around you seems rotten. This book is a rare gem. Treasure it.” —Chris Mautner, The Comics Jounal

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Normel Person

I have started doing a semi-regular comic strip for the Village Voice... On stands now before print media vanishes forever!

Normel Person, Preferences

This is my first comic for The Village Voice!

Women's March D.C.

Here are some sketches I did while attending the Women's March in DC. The rest of the story is published here...

DON'T RESIST!

Here's a piece I did for Resist! a newspaper guest edited by Françoise Mouly, art editor of The New Yorker, and writer Nadja Spiegelman. It will be handed out for free at the Women's March on Washington.

Perfect Maine Vacation

Here is a comic I originally did for The Guardian about trying to remember things for your child even if they aren't always true. It is in a slightly more phone-friendly format.

Invisible Patients

Nautil.us assigned me a piece about Alzheimer's Caregiver Stress. I interviewed Meryl Comer, who was such an eloquent, inspiring person. In the process of researching, I became consumed by the issue. As the Baby Boomers age, my generation will have to bear the brunt. See the rest of the comic here.

Illustration

I have done many illustrations. Clients include: The New York Times, Nautil.us, Fantagraphics, and McSweeney's.

Videos

The culture show, Articulate, did a little piece about my gardening habits.

In The Details // A Short Doc About the Cartoons Featured in People Places Things

I made a prop for the movie People Places Things--it was Jessica Williams' character's sketchbook. Best freelance job eva! Mia Lidofsky made a documentary about Gray Williams(the amazing cartoonist) and I. Lots of stuff about parenting and trying to be an artist here...

Gags

Here are my gag comics. I do them to ensure that my head doesn't explode. You can see more at http://gagzbylauren.tumblr.com/. Some are not safe for work. At all.

Paintings

If This Is All You Get

Infotainment

I enjoy making "edutational" items that walk between words and pictures.

Ramona Portraits

Watercolor portraits of my daughter. More portraits coming soon.

Vintage Vineylands

From 1998-2001 I had a strip in Seattle's The Stranger. I had no idea what I was doing, but it was fun. These were the results.

Strange life

A watercolor.

Goddess of War

Once I went crazy and decided to throw everything I was interested in: war history, mythology, etchings, sci-fi, and drawing big into one large format comic.The result was The Goddess of War , published by the beloved Picturebox in 2008.

The Sign

I have been working on and off on a graphic memoir for Henry Holt. Here is a practice page....

The Best We Can Hope For

Sometimes you do a piece of work that changes the way you think about how you're going to make everything for the rest of your life. This was that piece for me. Comics didn't have to be about panels, narrative could flow across the page....

Frogs

I illustrated this piece that was written by my husband Timothy Hodler, for Nature Comics (a short-lived comic book funded by PBS). It was heartbreaking to research the decline of the frogs. Imagine, little long-tunged beings who breathe through their skin, being suffocated by a fungal disease. It is real.